Alexandr Lukashenko and Angela Merkel have agreed in a telephone conversation to initiate a dialogue process to seek a solution to the crisis that has generated the arrival of thousands of migrants to the border between Belarus and Poland.
The President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, have agreed to start negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Minsk with the aim of resolving the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border.
Lukashenko and Merkel had their second telephone conversation in just three days on Wednesday. Both leaders already spoke on Monday, after the escalation of tensions on the border between Belarus and Poland, where they crowd thousands of migrants and refugees which, according to the European authorities, have ended up becoming “instruments of political pressure” in the hands of Minsk.
After that first conversation, Lukashenko claimed that he put on the table a “general proposal” to resolve the crisis and that Germany’s acting chancellor requested time to discuss this alleged plan with other EU partners. This point was not confirmed from Berlin, which limited itself to outlining a few brief lines of the topics discussed.
Lukashenko and Merkel have spoken again this Wednesday, again “about the situation on the border between Belarus and countries of the European Union”, and, according to the Belarusian Presidency, there has been a “certain” consensus on the need to act and resolve “existing problems”.
The two leaders would agree that it is the Government of Belarus and the EU that have to take the reins, which is why both parties “appoint immediately” their representatives to start a process of “negotiations”.
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